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- Fri Dec 07, 2012 7:45 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Earth at Night (2012 Dec 07)
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Re: APOD: Earth at Night (2012 Dec 07)
The outback of Australia is brighter than the rest of the country - yet effectively no one lives there. Consider the lights of Perth and Adelaide (each about 1M people) and Melbourne (4-5M) all outshone by a ton of places in Western Australia and Northern Territories. Something must be wrong there ...
- Tue Sep 25, 2012 6:41 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Unusual Spheres on Mars (2012 Sep 25)
- Replies: 45
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Re: APOD: Unusual Spheres on Mars (2012 Sep 25)
Does anyone have any explanations for the two oddball items near the top-centre in this image? First, there is a fractured ball that has lines crossing it, top-left to bottom right. If this was a photo from on earth, I would have immediately concluded that it was part of a spider's web. I can't see ...
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 4:46 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 06)
- Replies: 30
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Re: APOD: Nocturnal: Scenes from the Southern... (2012 Aug 0
The scenes near the start with silhouetted rocks that lighten to show yellow / orange sands with sandstone pillars are almost definitely at a location called The Pinnacles on the coastal sand-dunes inland from Grey in Western Australia - roughly 100 miles NNW of Perth. Google Earth has some good ima...